From the Prologue of Ochrid
Theodosius was the first establisher and organizer of cenobitic monasticism. Born in the region of Cappadocia, in the village of Mogarissos, of pious parents. As a young man he visited Simeon the Stylite, who blessed him and prophesied to him great spiritual glory. With a censer, into which he placed cold coals and incense, Theodosius sought a place where he might settle and establish a monastery, and he stopped where the coals ignited by themselves. There he settled and began to practice asceticism. Soon many monks of various languages gathered around him. Therefore he built one church for each language, so that simultaneously the divine services were celebrated and the glory of God was sung in Greek, Armenian, Georgian, and so forth. But on the day of communion all the brethren gathered in the great church in which services were celebrated in the Greek language. The table was common for all, common also was all property, common the labor, common the suffering and not infrequently—the hunger. Theodosius was an exalted example of life to all the monks, an example in labor, prayer, fasting, vigil and in all Christian virtues. And God endowed him with the gift of wonderworking, so that he could heal the sick, appear at a distance and help, tame wild beasts, perceive the future, multiply bread and wheat. Prayer was on his lips day and night. He reposed peacefully in the Lord when he was one hundred five years from birth (in the year 529).
